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blouse that can be worn over any
pretty guimpe or waist Is an altogeth
er satisfactory and desirable fashion
of the seaBon., Here Is one that Is aa
charming as well can be, yet abso
lutely simple and that la adapted
to almost every material used for In
door gowns. In the illustration it is
made of buff colored poplin with
trimming of plain and fancy braid,
while the girdle is of silk in exactly
matching color, but veiling, cash-
mere, Henrietta, Panama and chiffon
broadcloths are all appropriate In
wool materials while almost every
one of the simpler silks can be so
utilized.
. The blouse consists of the fronts
and backs and has the great merit of
allowing a choice in the closing, as
It Is so constructed that the opening
can be made at cither back or front
as best liked. The fronts are extend
ed to form strap-like trimmings that
Lacings of Velvet.
Lacings of velvet are found as
trimming, holding together panels,
sleeve caps and Jacket fronts.
Evening Gloves.
For so long a time evening gloves
have been of white kid or suede that
anything else seems almost too novel.
Yet there are beauty and good taste
In the more recent fashion of wearltw;
long gloves In a pale color exactly
matching the delicately tinted gown.
This fancy Is more and more exem
plified. Such colored gloves come In
glace kid, in lengths of twenty but
tons and more, and are extremely
pretty. Women are going to the ex
treme in lengths, and there seems to
be no danger of overdoing the matter.
Misses' Over Waist or Jumper.
Seldom has any fashion taken
such a firm hold upon feminine fancy
as this one of the over waist. It is
adapted both to the young girl and
to the woman and appears to be
equally charming and attractive for
both, while it can be made from a
variety of materials. This one is
eminently simple and gtrllBh and Is
quite appropriate for either silk or
wool, plain or fancy material, while
it can be made to match the skirt
or as a separate waist as liked. In
thlB instance plaid taffeta "is trimmed
with a little fancy braid and worn
over a guimpe of all over lace. But
one great advantage of the waist Is
found In the fact that It can be
slipped on over any guimpe that the
young owner may possess, those of
lingerie material being well liked for
the purpose, the special one being
by no means obligatory.
The walBt consists of. front and
back and is fitted by moans of shoul
der and under-arm Beams. There are
tucks from the shoulder which pro
vide becoming fulness and ribbons or
tapes at the waist line to regulate,'
the size. The guimpe is a plain one
with front and backs and is closed
invisibly at the back, while Its sleeves
are attached to the full girdle and
the back portions of the waist are
lapped over onto the front at the
shoulders, so allowing the use of the
ornamental buttons that are so much
liked this season and that are so'
beautiful.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is two yards
twenty-one,' one and three-eighth
yards twenty-seven or seven-eighth
yard forty-four inches wide with
even yards each of plain and fancy
braid and seven-eighth yard of Bilk
for the girdle.
No Latest Fashion.
Necessarily, with the handsome
robes we are to wear, the bats must
be large, and it is no exaggeration to
Bay that they run up the whole scale
of shapes ever worn, for one sees the
bergere, the Gainsborough, the bon
net Dauphin, the cloche and so on
forever, until choice is impossible, if
It is to be ruled by the "latest fash
Ion." There is no latest fashion now
adays, and the only thing to do is to
buy Just what suits one. The place
for the small hat is with the morning
tailor-made, however.
Coiffures Lower.
The Parisian coiffure is less high
than It was last season, the hair be
ing drawn loosely back and massed
about where the traditional Greek
knot la placed.
are of moderate fulness, finished with
straight bands.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen year size la tor the
over waist one and three-quarter
yards twenty-one, one and one-bait
yards twenty-seven or one and one
quarter yards forty-four Inches wide,
with ten yards of braid; for the
guimpe three and one-quarter yards
eighteen, three yards twenty-one or
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Issues, Not Men.
By Stuyvesant Fiali, Late President of
the Illinois Central.
HAT there has been maladministration, not to say stealing, tn
many of our great corporations is a matter of common notoriety,
In some cases of positive proof,
District-Attorney Jerome has the credit of coining the.
phrase 'the criminal rich.' Would he have come nearer the
fact If he had said, 'The anarchistic rich?' For, strange as it may
seem, some men, forgetting that corporate property Is so pecu.
Ha'rly in need of the protection of the law, have gone great lengths in absolv
ing themselves nnd these who move with them in the higher circles of finance
from the restraints of the law, of equity, of ethics and even of common de
cency. The decision in the Northern Securities case, however, shows that
Apprehension as to what corporate aggression may involve In the future is
a thlra? cognizable by our Supreme Court, and tnererore by the people.
The contest is no longer between those who have and those who have
not, but between those on the one haud who have moderately, sufficiently and
even abundantly, and on the other those who, through the use of trust funds
and the power incident thereto, seek by questionable practises to have exces
sively. This is the Issue which Is dally brought Into every home In America.
Like taxation without representation, it Involves moral and ethical questions,
and also strikes at the pocket book, which has been called the sure road to
the Anglo-Saxon's heart. It will not down.
Great and repeated efforts have been made to quiet and hush the clamor
which is rising on this subject Suoh efforts may succeed far a time, but not
in the end. It is not for me to say, in the words of Patrick Henry, 'Gentle
men may ory peace, peace, but there is no peace.' Nor yet, 'Shall we He
supinely on our 'backs until the enemy shall have bound us hand and foot?'
No, a thousand times no! I cannot and will not stir your minds up to a sense
of wrong. Such is not my purpose, nor is this the forum for an appeal
against unjust wealth. You and I have too large a stake in it to risk adding
to the danger into which it has been brought by the malfeasance of some of
our agents. What I do want is to bring to your attention the fact that no
apparently effective thing has heen done to right the wrongs which are known
to exist, and that It rests with us, the great middle class, to meet this Issue
aa our fathers met those which confronted them, soberly, advisedly and in
fear of God. Let us do and say nothing rash, 'but, relying on past experiences,
move forward as people who know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
President Roosevelt seems to adhere to the idea that there are good
trusts and bad trusts, good corporations and bad corporations. He seems to
'make a classification, 'based on size, objecting to the very large ones and
favoring the comparatively Bmall ones. It strikes some, however, that the
difference 'between a 'bad corporation and a good one, whether we call it a
trust or not, Hps wholly In the methods pursued by the managers of the cor
poration in regard alike to the public, to their employes and their stock
holders; an;l, Judging from past experiences, it i3 chiefly In bad faith toward
the stockholders and dishonesty In dealing with the public that most managers
of corporations have erred.
This is the supreme issue which in various forms, Is agitating the minds
of the masses of oiw fellow countrymen. I hope, and we all hope, that in
this hour of moral trial the Nation may again find In Its Chief Magistrate the
man destined to control this issue, within the law and by the law.
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one and five-eighth yards thirty-ill
Incites wide.
Up to Nature.
"Thanks," said the tragedian;
"many thanks for your good opinion.
1 always study from nature, sir. In
iny acting you see reflected nature
herself."
"Try this cigar," said an admirer
of nature reverently. "Nov, where
did you study that expression of in
tense surprise that you assume in the
second act?" "
"From nature, sir, from nature.
To secure that expression I asked an
Intimate friend to lend me 5. He
refused. This caused me no surprise.
I tried several more. Finally I asked
one who was willing to oblige me,
and as he handed me the note I stud
ied In a glass the expression of my
own face. I saw there surprise, but
it was not what I wanted. It was
alloyed with suspicion that the note
might be a bad one. I was in des
pair." "Well?" said the other breathless
ly. "Then an Idea struck me. I resolv
ed upon a desperate course. I re
turned the 5 note to my friend the
next day and on his astonished coun
tenance I saw the expression of which
I was in search." Tit-Bits.
A Vegetable Lizard.
An attache of the Smithsonian In
stitution tells of a curious inhabitant
of the tropical forests called the liz
ard tree, but which, as he remarks,
might well be termed the centipede
plant.
This singular growth consists of a
stem Jointed like a bamboo, with
green leaves growing directly from
the bark, and slender white roots
springing from the Joints, with which
it maintains its hold upon the bark
of the tree whereon it grows. When
it has attained a length of three or
four feet the lower sections of the
Hbard plant drop off, and, fastening
upon any convenient object, begin
their independent growth.
When thus growing upon the
ground, if the plant encounters a tree
it immediately begins to ascend the
trunk.
Substitute for Copper.
Aluminum for transmission of elec
tricity is being used as a substitute
for copper in some instances, par
ticularly in California and northern
New York, but its general substitution
for copper is not anticipated by pro
minent copper mining people.
Why Women Can
Never Be Friend.
By Winifred Black.
AN women be friends? inquires a writer in a popular magazine.
Friends to men, do you mean, Mr. Writer? In that case I
answer you "Yes."
Friends to women? In that case I put my deprecating nana
upon my honest and apologetic heart and say to you, positively
and didactically, "No, sir; they cannot."
Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but they are
always exceptions.
I know two women who are real friends to other women. I believe I
1ould telegraph either of them at any time of the day or night, tell them
that I was In trouble and needed help, and it they were alive they would an
swer me and do the beBt they couli to help me.
One of these women Is an old maid, a woman of great intellect and great
attainments. She makes her own living, and a mighty fine, Independent llv
lng It Is. The other of the two women whose friendship I' believe I could de
pend on Is married, but her children are grown, and though she is a good and
dutiful wife, as a matter of principle she doesn't really care two straws lor
her husband.
What have these facts to do with the case of these women's real friend
ship? Everything.
It is aliwaiys the real or the prospective man in the case who Interferes in
the friendships of women.
There was once a strike among the street car men in a certain city. Tos
troops were called out to terrify the strikers, ne of the strikers met a
frlpnd in uniform. "Sure, Tom," Bald the striker", "you wouldn't snoot an ora
pal like me, would ye, It the worst should come to worst?"
The man in uniform shifted his tobacco, narrowed his eyes and looked
his old friend straight in the face.
"It depends upon the captain's orders," he said.
That's what's the matter 'with a woman, friend. She may like you; she
may admire you; she may even be devotedly fond of you.
Will she stick by you in an emergency? Will she defend your good name,
help out your credit, comfort you in sorrow and rejoice with you In succesg
that depends upon the captain's orders and the captain Is always the man
who is standing somewhere in the background.
He may be nobody 'but a father, or a brother, or a son; he's apt to be a
sweetheart or a husband or sometimes Just a man who might be a sweetheart
if he had, the chance, but some man he is, and everv time you ask a woman
to do anything for another woman she has to think what the man in the back
ground is going to say about it. She may not know she's thinking about the
man, and the man may not have the faintest idea that she is thinking about
him either, but she is just the same.
That's what gives her such a far away look n her eyes when her woman
friend asks her ti? stick by her friendship in some emergency.
A woman Isi just a part of a man's life. Co matter how jnuch he lovea
her, she's only a part of his existence.
A man is the whole earth and firmament to the woman who loves him.
She gives up her family, her maiden name, her place of living, even the kind
of things she likes to eat, for him why should a friend, and merely a friend,
expect to be exempt In the general sacrifice?
No thank you. Mr. Magazine Writer, no independence on a woman friend
for me, she's too many different kinds of a person.
When you ask a woman to go anywhere with you, she has to think of the
baby, and the cook and Johnnie and Johnnie's friends who were coming to din
ner with him, and her husband and her mother-in-law, and her maiden aunt,
I01 Ua'ti thy a" perfeotly wlllinS that she should go she'll accept your
When you ask a man to give you the pleasure of his company somewhere,
sometime, you're asking Just plain nobody but him. He never "thinks of the
baby or Johnnie, or the mother-in-law. or vpn fhn wlf Tf .ho urnnta tn m.
he goes; if he doesn't, he says, "No, thank you," and tells you why. That's
wuy i cnuose men ror my menus. New York American.
Battleship Models.
By the English Admiralty's orders
perfect models are made in paraffin
wax of every new battleship before it
is laid down, and these models are
tested in a tRnk, being 400 feet long
and 20 feet wide. They are made of
wax because it is a material which
does not absorb water or change its
weight, so that alterations can be
easily made and the material can be
melted up and used again.
Horseflesh Is growing in favor in
Belgium. It sells for about half the
price of beef or mutton, which are
soldom handled by the butchers who
sell horse meat.
Better Pay for Soldiers.
General Funston makes an earnest
plea for the increase of the pay of
the officers and privates of the regu
lar army. Ho declares that the offi
cers of lowest rank receive leas pay
than many laborers, and even lesa
than some hod carriers, and that this
should not be the case. He asserts
also that if the pay of the privates
were increased it would be easier to
get and retain recruits for the army.
Intoxication while on. duty is a mis
demeanor for a railroad employe In
California, and if death results a felony.
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